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Monday, January 16, 2012

Return of the G-Spot (with a Sur-PRIZE!)

About a year ago, I did a Q & A post I cleverly named -- you guessed it -- The G-Spot!

You know, "G" for "Grimes." And "Spot" for . . . well, spot. As in place. My place. Er, this place, I mean. My blog.

Never mind.

As I recall, I got some really good questions. To which I gave brilliant answers, I'm sure. But then the Intense Debate commenting system I was using at the time decided to blow up in my face, and made them all -- questions and brilliant answers -- disappear.

This made me sad.

So, here I am, trying it again. (The G-Spot. Not Intense Debate. Burn me once, and hell if I'm going near you again.)

Ask me anything!

All questions (except for the spam I have to delete, or the truly obscene ones, which I will also delete) will be answered!*

The questions don't have to be about me. They can be about you. If you need any advice about anything -- anything at all -- I am here to offer it. ** And if I don't know the answer, you can trust me to make something up. I'm a writer. Making stuff up is what I do.

Best questions will be added to my IAQ (Inappropriately Answered Questions) on the sidebar, which I've been promising to update since I started this blog, and haven't gotten around to yet.

Oh, and how about a prize too?

I haven't had a contest in a while, so let's go for it! It will, of course, be a sur-PRIZE. You won't know what it is until somebody has won. The only thing you can be sure of is that it will be basically valueless, and possibly (but not necessarily) edible.

Contest rules: Ask me question in the comments sometime before Friday, Jan. 20, at midnight EST. If I don't have to delete it for the above-mentioned reasons, you will automatically be entered. That's it. Easy-peasy, huh?

What are you waiting for? ASK AWAY!

*Sure, the answer may be "none of your business," but what the heck. That shouldn't stop you from trying.

**Will it be helpful advice? Not likely. But perhaps amusing enough to take your mind off your problem for a brief period of time.

LOL! Would you believe I saw my MC's name on a vanity license plate and the whole story bloomed in my head? It's true. Just seeing "Ciel" unveiled a book that I'm sure must have already been hiding in my subconscious. If I hadn't been on the Fairfax County Parkway that fateful day, IN A FIX might have never come to be.

As much fun as I'm sure camels have, I'm going to have to go with cats on this one. Because camels have the whole beast of burden thing to cope with, you know. No one will ever turn a cat into a beast of burden. (Well, not and live to tell the tale...)

Anyway, back to the pig thing: I propose you simply learn to live with a certain amount of moral ambiguity in your life. Shades of gray, and all that. Because the alternative (giving up bacon) is unthinkable.

If it helps, apparently adult pigs are pretty nasty critters. So for for every piece of bacon you eat, you are sparing the world an angry pig. Besides, pigs are omnivores, and they'd eat you in a heartbeat if given half a chance. It's you or them, baby. ;)

Oh, man. It's tough to narrow down movies, and almost impossible to select a favorite book--there are so many!

Movies I can watch over and over again, and never get tired of: The Princess Bride, Galaxy Quest, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, just to name a few.

Books? If I go by the same standard, I can read Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series over and over again (and do!), especially Outlander and Voyager, which I guess must be my favorites, since I appear to be drawn back to them the most often.

My favorite way to veg out? With a good book and a hot cup of tea. Add some chocolate, and I'm in heaven.

About Me

Author of the hilariously sexy Ciel Halligan urban fantasy series from Tor. If you need to reach me, you can try me at linda(dot)grimes(at)gmail(dot)com. I'll probably even respond. Unless you're a spammer, in which case just go do something rude to yourself.